Profile of "Pro-Test"
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2009
Here's a scathing overview in Primate Freedom of the new organization "Pro-Test," an organization of animal researchers who want to advocate for their work. Long and impressive expose.
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PETA Protests Military's Testing on Pigs
Critter News
AUGUST 14, 2009
They are fast, organized, committed and they get attention. Tags: animal testing animal cruelty military pigs medical research PETA. But it's worth noting that someone out there took some action on this gruesome story. And that's what I like about PETA and why I recently became a member for the first time.
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Yes, That Bald Bird Is A Bald Cardinal…Probably
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 21, 2011
I’ve volunteered with a couple of organizations that had education birds used for public programs. At another organization, the education Great Horned Owl dropped its head, neck and body feathers, leaving only the facial disc feathers and wing feathers in place during the molt.
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I and the Bird #147: IATB SAT
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2011
As the owner of what has been called ( by me ) western New York’s leading test prep organization , I have to meticulously analyze every aspect of these crucial college entrance exams. Consequently, I give you the IATB SAT … The SAT undoubtedly deserves the title of America’s most terrifying test.
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7 Skills You’ll Need in Marketing for 2021
Sales and Marketing Management
JANUARY 22, 2021
One reason for this: marketing doesn’t speak the language of business and isn’t aligned with the goals of the rest of the organization. . Modern marketers test their assumptions and optimize their campaigns. Make 2021 the year that you build an infrastructure that allows you to run more tests and run them more often. .
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143 The Tar Side of Green Products
10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2012
Thirty hours later, Lisa’s husband Joe came up with the solution: Permatex DL Organic Mechanic Soap. She hit the telephone and the internet, and before long she had two veterinarians and a dozen rehabbers in several states trying to help her. If you ever fall in tar, should I put YOU down?”
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Come See Birds and…Everything
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 6, 2021
10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. The best test of that proposition, of course, is to repeat it to any one of the hundreds of thousands of birders who have, say, a family.
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Come to India With Babita Wildlife Tours!
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Babita Tours has many years of experience organizing tailor-made wildlife tours for private groups in this wonderful country. From the alpine habitats of the Himalayas, to deserts, grasslands, wetlands and forests, India has a great deal to offer the birdwatcher.
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Shearwater Chase in Costa Rica
10,000 Birds
APRIL 24, 2021
I strained to see them, could only see an occasional booby escape our bow, watch some of the hundreds of Wedge-tailed and Pink-footed Shearwaters zip by and hold on as our boat tested its speed. As we approached and drew nearly alongside the small seabirds, we also tested the limits of our optics, our balance, and our focus.
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Why I Question Animal Testing 2.2
Critter News
JUNE 16, 2010
The cognitive abilities of chimpanzees force us, I think, to raise searching questions about the boundaries of the community of beings to which special ethical considerations are due, and can, I hope, help to extend our ethical perspectives downward through the taxa on Earth and upwards to extraterrestrial organisms, if they exist.
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Scientist Advocacy Group Oppose Some Animal Testing
Critter News
JANUARY 11, 2009
Americans For Medical Advancement (AFMA) is a not-for-profit organization that promotes biomedical research and the practice of medicine based on critical thinking and our current understanding of evolutionary and developmental biology, complex systems and genomics. I'll let them describe their positions in their own words.
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Finca Luna Nueva Lodge: Biodynamic, Bird-rich Ecolodge
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2015
However, the owners’ collective commitment to certified organic biodynamic agriculture not only produces incredibly fresh and delicious ingredients for the kitchen but ensures that birds will find the property irresistable.
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Some Hokkaido Winter Passerines
10,000 Birds
MAY 27, 2024
I learned that there is an organization named Finch Research Network (“Dedicated to the study and conservation of finches and their habitats globally”). This is particularly interesting as newish research indicates that Common and Hoary Redpolls are actually the same species.
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Pre-Hire Assessments Help Employers Find Great People
SalesFuel
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
In the SHRM survey, around 54% of organizations report using pre-employment assessments. Around 20% specifically test employees for job knowledge or involve work simulations. For 14% of employers, personality tests are key. Nearly 75% of HR pros believe assessments can increase the “quality of their organization’s hires.”
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AI and HR: How Technology Is Changing the Hiring Process
Sales and Marketing Management
DECEMBER 7, 2023
The relationship between employer and employee has been tested repeatedly since the pandemic. Leveraging AI responsibly can put organizations in a position of advantage for successfully adapting to the evolving landscape of work.
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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2019
As a test of endurance, as a physical ordeal, it’s both miraculous and monstrous.” The Biggest Week in American Birding” is held there, a place its organizers call “The Warbler Capital of the World,” in the first week of May. As Kaufman says: “Four nights and three days in the air. Eighty hours of flying.
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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
That’s a lot, and the organizers of the safari did an excellent job of creating an environment that offered small group birding during the day and a birders party every night. One thing did bother me. If I’m going to sit on an airplane for 15-hours, I want a little more than 9 days birding. Wait, let’s backtrack a bit.
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Is Medical Research on Animals REALLY the Only Way?
Critter News
MARCH 10, 2009
There is more and more evidence that animal testing is NOT necessarily the best route to take. Even if there are certain situations in which animal testing is the only option, ie. Perhaps it was a necessary “evil.” This was disappointing for a variety of reasons. This story on HIV research is one example. It’s just a question of WILL.
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AVMA Reveals Itself As Apologist for Animal Research
Critter News
AUGUST 8, 2009
Here's the organization's defense of its primate veterinarian members. Wouldn't Fluffy die without all the benefits of animal testing? They have paying members that are part of the animal research industry itself. Cleverly, they also emphasize how many "animals" are saved by animal research.
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100 Birding the Rainforest Canopy
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2014
The main idea in organizing these events is to highlight Peru as a prime birding and nature travel destination. Other ideas still in the testing process include using these events as a mechanism to spearhead a Migratory Bird Conservation Alliance along the Pacific Ocean migratory route.
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Why Traditional Marketing Is Broken (and 5 Ways to Fix It)
Sales and Marketing Management
OCTOBER 30, 2020
We sit in endless meetings, debating annual plans – or worse, a three-year strategy – without feedback from the market or the rest of the organization. The traditional marketing organization is broken. The result is poor execution and an inability to communicate marketing’s value to the rest of the organization. .
Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2011
Deadline for Great Giveaways About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist. Chris and his organization have been doing a lot of good work around Tambopata for several years- you wont regret working with them!
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Audubon Rebrand
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Audubon Rebrand Audubon Rebrand By Mike • March 15, 2011 • No comments yet Tweet Share I’ve come to see the National Audubon Society more as a fine conservation organization than a fun birding society.
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New Swarovski Scopes – the ATX and the STX
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2012
As cool as watching the birds was I also enjoyed watching my fellow birders test out the new optics. My week-long trip to Hungary was a familiarity trip organized by the wonderful folks at Swarovski Optik to introduce their new line of superior spotting scopes, the ATX and the STX modular telescopes.
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COVID-19 Has Changed Everything About Selling. Here’s How We’re Handling It
Sales and Marketing Management
OCTOBER 12, 2020
While no operator’s manual exists to handle an emergency as unique as this one, I think I’ve come away with at least some rough guidelines that could be helpful to other sales organizations, whether for managing the current crisis or the next one. . Life was good for sales organizations before COVID-19.
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127 Air Canada To Stop Shipping Lab Primates
Critter News
JANUARY 20, 2012
Today, more than 40 animal advocacy organizations across Canada praised Air Canada for its recent decision to stop shipping non-human primates into the country for use in research laboratories.
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100 Is Your Company Failing Enough Times to Succeed?
Sales and Marketing Management
DECEMBER 1, 2017
And failed tests aren’t efforts to be circumvented but embraced, as they ultimately enable curiosity, development, and growth by allowing a company to take risks, drive deeper thinking, and outmaneuver the competition. Why a Company Culture Built Around Tested Failure Succeeds. How to Develop a Culture of Tested Failure.
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Dog-Owner Conversations May Be Possible in Near Future
4 The Love Of Animals
JANUARY 25, 2014
A campaign was recently launched by the Nordic Society for Invention and Discovery to raise funds for the purpose of designing a specific device that the organization refers to as “No More Woof.” However, the concept is scientifically sound and initial tests showed substantial promise.
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100 Count Your Chickens (In the Florida Keys)
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2014
Species that occur or have occurred in Florida as a result of unassisted vagrancy or dispersal from an Exotic population outside Florida, which clearly meets all tests of Establishment within their range, shall be evaluated as if they were Naturally Appearing even though they are Exotic.
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234 Being more remarkable in virtual sales meetings
Sales and Marketing Management
SEPTEMBER 28, 2018
and that we have now put to the test. The simulation, conducted online, put four messaging conditions to the test in a non-face-to-face selling environment?—?some Meanwhile, positive outcomes associated with the organic processing system like increased market share, revenues and profit margin were rendered in blue.
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100 Hard for you to say you’re sorry?
Sales and Marketing Management
JUNE 10, 2019
So, along with Lee, we created a test scenario and recruited 500 people across North America and Europe to imagine themselves in a service failure situation. After describing the service failure and the pain it caused in the organization, we asked everyone to rank the intensity of their negative feelings toward the supplier in the story.
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Ningaloo Reef
10,000 Birds
JUNE 22, 2017
The trip was a day one, with the boat leaving the dock early in the morning and a brief stop on the way among sheltered inner reef waters to test our snorkeling skills. Coral reefs have a bewildering array of things to see, and camera rental is a good way to preserve memories and learn your reef organisms, or at least start to do so!
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100 Animals as Raw Material
Critter News
NOVEMBER 23, 2009
From plastics made from feather protein to diesel fuel made from fat to organic fertilizer made from poultry litter, the USA's top meat producers are developing new uses and markets for the animal parts that humans won't eat, says Tom Cook, president of the National Renderers Association in Alexandria, Va.
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100 Animal Welfare Act Inadequate for Farm Animals
Critter News
APRIL 13, 2009
According to the United States Department of Agriculture, “farm animals are regulated under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) only when used in biomedical research, testing, teaching and exhibition. Farm animals used for food and fiber or for food and fiber research are not regulated under the AWA.”.Unlike
Birding the Eshowe area, South Africa
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 23, 2023
At vulture family gatherings, it is always a bit of a bother for the organizers to cater to the needs of the Palm Nut Vulture. Then, in 2018, other researchers did DNA testing on the sample specimen and found it was just an ordinary Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird with some kind of slight color mutation ( source ).
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147 Tips for Birding Costa Rica in October, 2017
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 14, 2017
There’s always the chance that your trip might coincide with a tropical storm but that doesn’t happen every year and when it does, it’s only for a few days or maybe a week (and also gives you the chance to put your waterproof optics to the test). Recently, this one was right in front of Carara National Park. .
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Is Your Top Candidate Who You Think They Are?
SalesFuel
AUGUST 13, 2024
Biases of all kinds surface during the hiring process and sometimes result in the wrong person joining an organization. To reduce the error rate in hiring, more organizations are turning to tech-based tools. But you can easily test for technical skills by asking them to complete a project.
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105 Six Sigma and Your Sales Process
Sales and Marketing Management
MAY 9, 2019
Varner I noticed organizations continually invest time and money to improve sales team effectiveness, but which one? These organizations are often neglecting something as fundamental as basic selling skills. Here’s a simple test: Look at an active sales opportunity where the outcome is in doubt. Author: David L.
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How to Make a Remote Sale
Sales and Marketing Management
APRIL 13, 2020
Logistically, test your audio, microphone, and software in advance of the meeting. It demonstrates you are prepared and allows you to re-direct the conversation if it goes in the wrong direction. Position yourself for success. This is both a hard and soft skill. Know where your Wi-Fi connection is most stable.
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157 Week 17: Kruger NP, Crocodile Bridge to Lower Sabie
10,000 Birds
MAY 31, 2018
Download, sort and organize the pictures from the day, dinner and do this all over again the next day. That would have tested out rental insurance policy! Then it is back on the road, until dark, and the drive back to the house. NOTE: A quick update on this story, we have moved into the park for a few days.
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A Question of Migration
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2011
Some of the first solid research pointing to a magnetic sense of some sort in birds was being produced at that time, and there were even people testing humans for a similar ability. One way to organize these ponderous complexities is to refer to our Tinbergen.
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225 Star-Powered Auction for Animals!
4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 4, 2009
Pet lovers will be seeing stars November 5 – 15 at the Celebrity Experience and Entertainment Memorabilia Auction , launched online to support Precious Paws , a non-profit animal rescue organization based in Encino, Calif. The organization is committed to its cause, and this fundraiser is critical in helping the group meet its mission.”.
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4 Customer Service Trends to Boost your Business
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 20, 2017
Author: Jeff Mowatt When organizations invite me to speak at their conferences or train their team members, we start with trends that are impacting their customer relationships. Lots of organizations claim to have better service. Take calculated risks to test different ways of doing business. Good service is wallpaper.
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What Neurodiverse Employees Want Managers to Understand
SalesFuel
JULY 30, 2024
The Hiring Process Some organizations pride themselves on putting candidates through grueling interviews and tests. Some experts suggest allowing neurodiverse candidates to stretch out tests and interviews over several days. In addition, managers should actively monitor team interaction.
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